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The proposed referendum, which demands that anyone who has sexual relations with someone of the same gender be put to death, calls into question the state’s historically permissive voter initiative system.

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THE CASE AGAINST 8 takes a riveting inside look at the groundbreaking Supreme Court case that overturned Proposition 8, California's ban on same-sex marriage. Five years in the making, the film chronicles the struggle that changed history and paved

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